The unique festival season - Madras music season - is back again with over 1000 performances of Indian classical music, dance and allied arts spread over a period of almost two months. Scholars, critics, organisers, festival directors, artists and art lovers from all over the world reach Chennai to participate. More than 25 major month-long festivals along with mini festivals of seven to ten days plus seminars, discussions, lecture-demonstrations etc. will be presented by several music and dance organizations/sabhas. Following is the complete schedule. Go back to the main page to choose schedules of organisations/festivals/sabhas.

Sonal Mansingh opens Narada Gana Sabha's dance festival on 16 Dec 2006 at 7.30pm with an Odissi recital while the music festival starts on 15 Dec 2006 at 7.00pm with a Saxophone recital by Kadri Gopalnath.

Narada Gana Sabha
Venue: 314, TTK Road, Chennai 600 018. Tel: +91-(0)-44-2499301 / 24990850

D A N C E:
16 Dec 2006: Odissi by Sonal Mansingh. 7.30pm
17 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Shobana Balachandra. 2.00pm
17 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Leela Samson. 7.30pm
18 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Priyadarshini Govind. 7.30pm
21 Dec 2006: Mohiniattam by Bharati Shivaji. 7.30pm
22 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Srinidhi Chidambharam. 7.30pm
23 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Lakshmi Ramaswamy. 2.00pm
24 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Narthaki Nataraj. 2.00pm
24 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Shobana. 7.30pm
25 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Manjari. 2.00pm
27 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Gayathri Balagurunathan. 2.00pm
28 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Vyjayanthimala Bali. 7.30pm
29 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Malavika Sarukkai. 7.30pm
31 Dec 2006: Bharata Natyam by Swarnamalya. 7.30pm
01 Jan 2007: Bharata Natyam by Padma Subramaniam. 7.30pm
02 Jan 2007: Ananda Shankar Jayanth Bharathanatyam 7:30 pm

M U S I C:
15/12/06 7:00 pm Kadri Gopalnath Saxophone
16/12/06 10:00 am Sriram Gangadharan Vocal
16/12/06 12:30 pm K. Gayathri Vocal
16/12/06 2:00 pm Mambalam Sisters Vocal
16/12/06 4:30 pm Nithyasri Mahadevan Vocal
17/12/06 10:00 am B. Kannan Veena
17/12/06 12:30 pm Delhi Muthukumar Vocal
17/12/06 4:25 pm T. V. Sankaranarayanan Vocal
18/12/06 10:00 am Lakshmi Rangarajan Vocal
18/12/06 12:30 pm Bhairavi and Malavi Vocal
18/12/06 2:00 pm Sikkil Gurucharan Vocal
18/12/06 4:30 pm P. Unnikrishnan Vocal
19/12/06 10:00 am B. Vijayagopal Flute
19/12/06 12:30 pm Prasanna Venkataraman Vocal
19/12/06 2:00 pm T. V. Ramprasad Vocal
19/12/06 4:30 pm K. J. Yesudoss Vocal
19/12/06 7:30 pm Kalyanapuram Aaravamudhachariar Katha Kalakshepam
20/12/06 10:00 am Geetha Bennet Veena
20/12/06 12:30 pm Amrutha Venkatesh Vocal
20/12/06 4:30 pm Priya Sisters Vocal
20/12/06 7:30 pm O. S. Thiagarajan Vocal
21/12/06 10:00 am Madurai R. Sundar Vocal
21/12/06 12:30 pm Vidya Kalyanaraman Vocal
21/12/06 2:00 pm Chinmaya Sisters Vocal
21/12/06 4:30 pm S. Sowmya Vocal
22/12/06 12:30 pm S. Mahathi Vocal
22/12/06 2:00 pm Carnatic Brothers Vocal
22/12/06 4:30 pm Sanjay Subramaniam Vocal
23/12/06 10:00 am Kathadi Ramamurthy Drama
23/12/06 12:30 pm K. Sathyanarayanan Keyboard
23/12/06 4:30 pm T. N. Seshagopalan Vocal
24/12/06 10:00 am A. Kanyakumari and Embar Kannan Violin duet
24/12/06 12:30 pm Gayathri Devi Vocal
24/12/06 4:25 pm Aruna Sairam Vocal
25/12/06 10:00 am Gayathri Girish Vocal
25/12/06 12:30 pm V. R. Dilipkumar Vocal
25/12/06 4:30 pm Kunnakudi R. Vaidyanathan Violin solo
25/12/06 7:30 pm O. S. Arun Sampradaya Bhajan
26/12/06 2:00 pm V. Shankaranarayanan Vocal
26/12/06 4:30 pm T. M. Krishna Vocal
27/12/06 4:30 pm Ranjani Gayathri Vocal
27/12/06 7:30 pm Prahlatha Charithram Bagavatha Mela
28/12/06 2:00 pm Nisha Rajagopal Vocal
28/12/06 4:30 pm U. Shrinivas and U. Rajesh Mandolin Duet
29/12/06 2:00 pm Saswathi Anand Vocal
29/12/06 4:30 pm Sudha Ragunathan Vocal
30/12/06 10:00 am N. Ramani Flute
30/12/06 2:00 pm Dr. R. Ganesh Vocal
30/12/06 4:30 pm Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Vocal
30/12/06 7:30 pm Papanasam Ashok Ramani Vocal
31/12/06 10:00 am S. Ve. Sekar Drama
31/12/06 12:30 pm Manasi Prasad Vocal
31/12/06 2:00 pm R. Suryaprakash Vocal
31/12/06 4:25 pm Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan Vocal
01/1/07 12:30 pm Amritha Murali Vocal
01/1/07 2:00 pm T.N.S. Krishna Vocal
01/1/07 4:30 pm Malladi Brothers Vocal
02/1/07 10:00 am Rithvik Raja Vocal
02/1/07 12:30 pm Rajeswari Sathish Vocal
02/1/07 2:00 pm Chaarulatha Mani Vocal
02/1/07 4:30 pm Sirkazhi Siva Chidambaram Vocal

26 Dec 2007. 2.40pm
Venus Pettachi Sivagami Auditorium, Luz
Brahma Gana Sabha

Bhajans in Flute
by GS RAJAN

30 Dec 2006. 7.30pm
Vipanchika
RK Swamy Auditorium, Mylapore.

Bharata Natyam
SHOBANA
24 Dec 2006, 7.30pm
Narada Gana Sabha

To note down addresses of Sabhas or concert venues not listed here please visit our 'cultural Institutions' page or click here.

Nearby Hotels to Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, Pettachi Sivagami Auditorium (Brahma Gana Sabha), Mylapore Fine Arts, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan Auditorium, RR Sabha, Srinivasa Shastry Hall:

Hotel New Woodlands
72, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai. Tel: +91-(0)-44-28113111

Hotel Savera
146, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Tel: +91-(0)-44-2811470

Hotel Maris
11, Cathedral Road, Tel: +91-(0)-44-28110541

Ramada Raj Park
180, TTK Road, Tel: +91-(0)-44-24987777